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Before Us, a family saga that crosses the story directed by Daniele Luchetti

Before us is a new drama of Rai 1 and RaiPlay aired from Sunday 4 January in the first evening, consisting of 10 episodes that will then occupy 5 evenings. The TV series is from the novel by Giorgio Fontana adapted by Giulia Calenda, Daniele Luchetti, Valia Santella, directed by Daniele Luchetti and Valia
Santella. Before us it is produced by Wildiside, a company of the Freemanlte group for RaiFiction and is a fresco of Italy between 1917 and 1978 from rural Friuli to Turin factories, thus crossing the fascist dictatorship, war, economic boom, years of lead, disputes.

In the cast we find Linda Caridi, Andrea Arcangeli, Maurizio Lastrico, Matteo Martari, Diane Fleri, Benedetta Cimatti, Fausto Maria Sciarappa, Romana Maggiora Vergano and Elena Lietti.

Prima di noi, la trama

Before us it is a series that tells Italy but above all the North through the Sartori family three generations of builders and destroyers, eternal archetypes who seek their place in the world and redemption from the guilt of those who came before them. A burden that seems to have left only rage and restlessness, even in the most generous gestures of love.

Everything starts from Maurizio and the escape from the front after the retreat of Caporetto during the First World War. A choice that keeps secret and makes it a deserter in every aspect of life. He will find the courage to tell only Nadia, indestructible capostipite and root of the family nucleus: a female force capable of holding together the firmness of ancestors and attempts to escape children, anticipating the events of history.

La trama delle prime due puntate del 4 gennaio

Episode 1 1917. Maurizio Sartori finds refuge at the farmhouse Tassan. Nadia, while discovering that he is a deserter, falls in love with him. They decide to hide the truth to all. Maurizio is restless and tormented and in some moments a dark force comes to crush his chest dangerously: it is the Cjalcjut, a spirit that according to popular legend suffocates those who in life committed serious
errors. Nadia at the end of the war discovers she is pregnant, but Maurizio does not bear the weight of the event and decides to flee.

Episode 2 1919. Nadia is not resigned to abandonment. After various vicissitudes, the two marry and move to the village with the little Gabriel, where Maurizio finds work as a worker and makes friends with Leo. The two are arrested in a fight with the fascists. Asked by the police, Maurizio denies being a deserter. Nadia gives birth to the second son, Domenico, while Maurizio shelters more and more in alcohol forcing Nadia to find work with a family. Renzo was born and eight years later Domenico risked to die for the bite of a viper.

Cast e personaggi

Linda Caridi is Nadia Tassan, raised in Friuli by a family of only women while men are in the front, is a dreamer who falls in love with Maurizio Sartori soldier who only reveals to her to be deserter.

Andrea Arcangeli is Maurizio Sartori, a deserter soldier after Caporetto, meets Nadia but always feels like a man on the run.

Leonardo Cesaroni and Maurizio Lastrico are Gabriele Sartori, the firstborn of Nadia and Maurizio, similar to the mother, Catholic scholar and in love with Margherita

Alessandro Benedetti and Matteo Martari are Renzo Sartori, third-born is the copy of the father, scapestrate and adventurer, will Teresa take care of him

Luca Di Sessa is Domenico Sartori, secondborn, fragile, with a propensity towards the disadvantaged who will lead him to fight in Africa dying prisoner.

Lorena Nacchia and Diane Fleri are Margherita, desperate for Gino dispersed in Russia, meets Gabriele

Benedetta Cimatti is Teresa, owner of a tavern on the outskirts of Turin, welcomes Renzo and falls in love

Elena Linetti is Maddalena, mother of Nadia Tassan

Romana Maggiora Vergano is Eloisa, the firstborn of Gabriele and Margherita, a rebel, in the 1970s becomes anarchist

Lorenzo Aloi is the secondborn of Gabriele and Margherita, introverted and waterproof to emotions, marked by poliomelite
Andrea Palma is Luigi, illegitimate son of Renzo Sartori
Stefano Venturi and Francesco Canellotti are Flaviut, friend of the Sartori
Geneva Francesconi is Diana, the firstborn of Renzo and Teresa
Luca Nozzoli is Libero, secondborn of Renzo and Teresa
Maria Vittoria Dallasta is Marta
Fausto Maria Sciarappa is Leone

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